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Review: Nitro Pro 8 gives Adobe Acrobat XI a run for its money |
December 18, 2012
And now in this corner, the scrappy competitor: Nitro Pro 8, a PDF application that costs just $120. In the other corner hulks Adobe Acrobat XI Pro, the reigning champion of PDF. Many PDF applications have challenged the champion; is Nitro Pro 8 the one to pull off the upset? It depends on what the audience wants to see and to pay for: If they're looking for an application that can get most of their PDF-related tasks done without many extras, then Nitro Pro 8 is the one to root for.
Comparisons to Acrobat XI Pro
Nitro Pro 8 lacks some of the newest features in the $449 Acrobat XI Pro, which was released shortly after Nitro Pro 8. While Nitro Pro 8 can create and edit PDF forms, it has no mechanism for creating Web-based forms, as Acrobat XI Pro's companion application, FormsCentral, does. (You could argue that you don't need Acrobat XI Pro for that either; you can either download FormsCentral or simply use its website skip the PDF software entirely.) Nitro Pro 8 does not yet have the ability to scan a PDF and suggest form fields, as Acrobat XI Pro does.
Nitro Pro 8's attractive, basic interface puts most controls in a ribbon bar.
Likewise, Nitro Pro 8's digital signature features are basic PDF ones: You can add a "QuickSign," which is an image of your signature that you can password-protect; or you can add a digital signature, which entails creating a digital ID, which is an encrypted, key-based file you can generate within the application with Windows' help. I think some people may get these two types confused, but they're pretty easy to set up.
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Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2020578/review-nitro-pro-8-gives-adobe-acrobat-xi-a-run-for-its-money.html
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